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Alice McDermott
Rave Associated Press McDermott’s ninth novel perfectly captures the manner and mood of [an] era.
Tom Rachman
Positive Associated Press Each chapter in Rachman’s book is a complete story that connects to the others, even if it isn’t always immediately clear how the stories tie together ... The different stories stories feel depressing, but there’s a bit of sly humor along the way. Some readers may enjoy the book for its literary form as it aims a critical eye at the written word.
Melissa L. Sevigny
Rave Associated Press Highlights the little-known contributions two women made to our knowledge about the Southwest ecology. And it pays homage to a pair of scientists far ahead of their time.
Julia Langbein
Rave AP News Hilarious ... A shrewd, sardonic look at Hollywood movie making and how its mythmaking hacks can systematically cheapen and even destroy important stories in their quest to make money.
Andrew Sean Greer
Rave Associated Press Like that earlier novel, which was lauded for its musical prose, Less Is Lost is affecting and funny — so hysterical at times you may find yourself laughing aloud.
Jann S. Wenner
Positive Associated Press Jann S. Wenner takes us on a long, strange trip with his accessible and entertaining rock ‘n’ roll memoir ... The memoir allows Wenner to tell his story in his own words ... His narrative could leave the reader feeling like some interesting details have been left out.
David Sedaris
Rave Associated. Press Almost everyone has a dysfunctional family, but few expose their relatives’ funny, embarrassing and even disturbing quirks quite like writer and humorist David Sedaris ... A new collection of poignant, honest and funny essays ... Writing about his teen years, Sedaris is simultaneously amusing and brutal while unflinchingly exposing the ironies of his family and life in general.
Delia Ephron
Rave Associated Press The funny, poignant and sometimes magical memoir is an open-eyed look at later life and what Ephron calls the left turns that can be perilous or wonderous ... There\'s also plenty of enchantment .
Peng Shepherd
Rave Associated Press The gripping story plotted out in The Cartographers is the latest product of Peng Shepherd’s creative imagination, providing readers with many tantalizing twists and surprises along the way as she explores the intersection between science and art, mathematics and magic ... Shepherd’s latest novel is sometimes dark, describing mystical happenings that science cannot explain.
Isabel Allende
Positive The Associated Press ... recalls Allende’s best known and highly successful novel, The House of Spirits, which weaves together the personal and the political in a saga stretching across decades.
Joyce Carol Oates
Mixed The Associated Press ... the highly affecting story of a woman facing the unimaginable loss of her spouse ... As the book nears the end, time begins tumbling forward in a chaotic manner. It’s hard to know what is real and what is imagined as the novel rushes toward its shocking and ambiguous ending.